Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-09-06
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FEsOfs WASHINGTON.
rsoecial Correspondence of tho Alcxa. GAzErrE]
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 6, 1887.
Mr. Randall arrived here yesterday and
Yves al the Capitol this morning. He 10
Iooking wall, and says he is feeling like q
two wear old. He says the democrats in his
State are now united and harmonious. that
the State ticket recently nominated is
perfectly satisfactory, and that the party is
not ONLY in good condition but has chance
for success. But Mr. Randall talked the
same way in 1854, and in tho subsequent
election Pennsylvania gave eighty thousand
republican majority.
Secretary Fairchild, Mr.. Carlisle and the
President are still engaged in preparing q
revenue bill to be Introduced early at the next
session of Congress. II is said that strong
effort will be exsfted to make its prominent
features tho abolition of the tax on tobacco
and of the tariff on raw material used by
American manufacturers, and reduction
or abolition of the duty on the prime neces
saries of life Whether Mr.. Randall will be
consulted on this matter is unknown. lie
arrived here rather Unexpectedly yesterday
evening, but says he has not been invited to
Oak View.
Senator Iasalls and Sawyer arrived here
Yesterday, but on private business. Senator
Ransom, who had been here several days,
has gone home, having secured one or two
more offices for North Carolina democrats.
AS the papers that Mir. Thoehe, Mr.. Car
isles opponent at the last election, fled
with the clerk of the House, do net comply
with the requirements of contested election
cases. Mr. Carlisle has taken no notice OF
them, and does uotiDtend TO.
Eaca of the eighteen sections Of The Medi
cal Congress had morning and evening SEES
sioas 10 day, and all were we'll attended.
The members viii call on tho President to
night, and afterwards visit tho Corcoran art
gallery.
ct the Capiloi to-day He ssys TIE talked
OF reform movement in his State amounts to
nothing that there is no such thing there /;
that party lines are we'll aod distinctly
marked there-rcpublican on one side and
democratic on the other. He says Mr..
Wallis was q wbig, ard probably was true
to the wing party during its existence, hut
that since then he has been a man with a
urie:a.c ard has been true 10 no party.
He saws he does not believe that Col Mar
shall Will oppose the regular democratic
ticket on election day. Mr. Marhary, he
says, is q young man whom he does not
know, but that, like the Ephesian youth. he
is for fame, att! labors under the vain delu
sion that he will attain by an attempt
to defeat the democratic party in Maryland
It Is said to day that tho prominence
Count Mitkiewicz has recently attained by
reason of his connection with the Chinese
charters has induced the Russian legation
here 20 search the records Of the heraldty
courts OF Lheir country, and that the Counts
name can not be found therein. 1t is also
said that the Chinese minister here will not
approve the charters unless unless he shall
be satisfied about the Counts right to his
title and with his financial standing.
The State Department has received copy
OF contract that the Venezuelan govern
ment has made for cabo communication
with this country.
The arrival Of delegates to the interna-
t;onal medical congress has not yet ceased.
Among those who arrived this morning is
DR.. Hunter Mcclure, OF Richmond.
Ex-representative Cobb of Indiana was at
the Capitol to-day. He says that expert
ence proves that in the North the part q
man took in the civil war either has no effect
upon the democratic vote Or that il other
wise the effect is to the advantage of tho
man who was not in the army. OF the lat
ter case he says his own instance Is an eX-
ample, but thu. numerous others are within
his knowledge. This would indicate that a
Southern man for Vice President on the
democratic ticket would not hurt that ticket
ia the North. That it would strengthen it
10 the South goes without saying among
NEST of the really wise Southern men who
are here or who have been here recently
but they do not assume to be leaders.
Many Of tho visiting doctors here are ac
companied by their wives ana daughters,
numbers of whom were at the Capitol and
other places of public interest to-day.
The report that Admiral Lace has been
transferred from the North Atlantic squad.
ron to toe presidency of the naval war col
leee is denied at the Navy Department..
Information received at the Department
of State from Mexico is to the effect that the
Mexican authorities have arrested seven
men implicated in the murder of Joseph ii.
Duval, an American citizen, and sentenced
all of them to ten years confinement in the
peniteDtiary.
A telegram received at the War Depart
ment to-day from Major General Terry
states that the Utes are all on their reser.
walton aud that everything is quiet for the
present.
People here even republicans, say they can't
understand why man with the reputation for
worldly wisdom possessed by General Malone,
should have prosecuted his sat against Senator
Riddeberger for small sum of money, which, if
he gains he can not collect. and the trial of which
has necessarily expo:od great deal % party dirty
linen.
MANY oftbe citizens of Tulare, California,
have been made seriously i'll by the bites OF
big black spiders, which bave appeared in